Even if you don't use Cilwa Studios to design your web site, read on for helpful hints on what to ask of the person who does...even if that person is you!

Let's face it: Web sites are the Yellow Pages of the 21st Century. And this is a double-edged sword; on the one hand, you have much more opportunity to inform your customers and potential customers with up-to-the-minute news, product announcements, and more. On the other hand, you have much more opportunity to mis-inform, or even alienate your web site visitors, than you ever had with a phone book ad!

While careful spell and fact checking can save you from the embarrassment of misinformation (and corrections can be quickly made to a web site, as opposed to a phone book), it's not so easy to ensure you attract, as opposed to alienate, visitors. Here's a short list of web site pitfalls:

• Poor color design choice, resulting in hard-to-read (or just hard-to-stomach!) sites.
• Poor navigation, hindering the average user from finding the information he or she needs.
• Poor page design, making it difficult to keep the attention of today's impatient and jittery reader.
• Technical issues, such as broken page links, unreasonable computer demands (sites that are too wide for the average monitor), pages that don't view properly with all browsers, or poor font choices.

No one expects you to do the work you do and be an expert web site designer. Yet, someone needs to do it; the benefits of having a useful web site far outweigh the costs. We at Cilwa Studios offer our services in this matter. We can put together the artistry of an experienced graphic designer with the technical expertise of an expert web site implementer and get that site of yours up-and-running in no time.

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